Exert vs Underpull - What's the difference?
exert | underpull |
To put in vigorous action.
To make use of, to apply, especially of something non-material.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=19 * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=18 April, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
, title= To exert one's influence secretly.
*1896 , Edmund Brown Viney Christian, A Short History of Solicitors :
* Lord North, Life of the late Lord Keeper Guilford
As verbs the difference between exert and underpull
is that exert is to put in vigorous action while underpull is to exert one's influence secretly.exert
English
Verb
(en verb)citation, passage=Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.}}
Chelsea 1-0 Barcelona, passage=Di Matteo clearly saw Drogba's power as a potential threat to a Barcelona defence stripped of Gerard Pique - but he barely caught sight of goal in a first 45 minutes in which the Catalans exerted their technical superiority.}}
underpull
English
Verb
(en verb)- It may have been that the lower ranks of the apprenticii , in the words of The Compleat Solicitor, underpulled causes during the long term of study then necessary before the rank of utter barrister was attained.
- His Lordship, while he was a Student, and during his Incapacity to practise aboveboard, was contented to underpull , as they call it, and managed diverse Suits for his Country Friends and Relations
